Newcomers

Welcome to the Yocto Project Newcomers Guide!

If you just want to get starting building with Yocto, the Quick Start Guide is for you!

As you have questions, these are the two manuals that can help with any questions you have on Bitbake or Yocto.

Want to learn more?

Rudi Streif gave a great talk at the Embedded Linux Conference in 2015.

He has also written a book, "Embedded Linux Systems with the Yocto Project".

Otavio Salvador and Daiane Angolini have also written a book, "Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project".

Ready to Contribute?

Learn how to submit a patch to OpenEmbedded. There are various patch guidelines, as well as a styleguide which you should familiarize yourself with before submitting a patch.

We track our bugs using bugzilla. You may want to review our bug guidelines to help understand this process.